People smugglers dump 10 men from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan near the shore of Kau Ling Chung in Lantau South Country Park

A group of illegal immigrants were arrested on Lantau Island when they called police to help a Bangladeshi man who had collapsed shortly after they landed in Hong Kong on Wednesday.

Six Bangladeshis, three Pakistanis and an Afghan man, aged between 20 and 40, paid people smugglers in Shenzhen to bring them to Hong Kong, Wen Wei Po reported. They left Shenzhen in a motorized sampan at 7pm on Tuesday and were then dumped on the shore of Kau Ling Chung in Lantau South Country Park at midnight.